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Two Ways to Get Wolves and Witches
Wolves and Witches has been out for almost an entire year. Hooray! Over the course of its pubversary month, we have two ways for you to get an autographed copy signed by both authors. We live four hours apart, so it is not easy to get both of us and copies of the book in the same place all at once. Result: we don’t have a lot of these! You can get ( Read more... ) -
How I Bake My Macarons (Without Going Bananas)
So about two years ago I got it in my crazy head that what I was going to do was learn to bake Parisian macarons, because they are gorgeous and because I heard they were notoriously the most difficult cookie in the world.
This took a while.
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2013 Year-In-Review
2013 was a very different year in writing-and-publishing for me than the previous four.
I sold much less than usual-four stories, two poems, and a piece of flash that’s still kind of Schrodinger-but all four stories went to pro markets. I wrote a lot fewer short stories and poems-thirteen, not all polished yet-but my yearly word count nudged 200,000 ( Read more... ) -
Wounds On Our Fronts: Failure and Success
Over on Twitter, which is my number one site for fiction-writing shop talk, a trend emerged from the conversation in October.
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More Forensics Pieces: Prose and Poetry, Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Horror
My post breaking down the contents of Wolves and Witches for use as forensics pieces has become one of the most popular posts on this blog. (Hello, high school students!)
For performers who are interested in something other than fairy tale retellings, here are some of my favorite publications. These are horror, science fiction, and fantasy, and ( Read more... ) -
The Two Tricks That Make Formatting Story Submissions a Piece of Cake
In submitting stories for publication, there's such a thing as a standard manuscript format, or so they would have us believe. In practice, almost every market has its own little preferences: font, file type, or what have you. Two of the most common variations from Shunn's standard are: 1) italics rather than underlines, and 2) no indents, space ( Read more... ) -
Doing a Thing
Alliteration Ink is having a Kickstarter! What Fates Impose is an anthology about fortune-telling (be it real, fake, or tragically misinterpreted), containing LOTS of excellent writers, and also me*, for some reason. I'm super excited about this, because for the first time in my life, and after having backed some thirty-odd other projects**, I get ( Read more... ) -
The Next Big Thing
*looks under couch cushion* *stares* Holy cow, I have a blog.
John Boden tagged me for this A MILLION YEARS AGO and now, at last, I actually have something to talk about.
1. What is the working title of your next book?
Wolves and Witches
2. Where did the idea come from for the book?
megengelhardt and I looked at each other and said, "Geez, we've sold a lot ( Read more... )
